Hi, I'm Andrea

I'm a postdoctoral research scientist in the Columbia University Psychology Department working with Dima Amso in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and Nim Tottenham in the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. 

My research addresses how children learn from and adapt to their early caregiving environments. Currently, my work focuses on the following questions:

• How do parents modulate exploration and promote subsequent independence during toddlerhood?

• Do parents serve a privileged role in early attention, memory, and learning processes?

• How do children adapt to unpredictable environmental signals?

• What behavioral and biological mechanisms best explain how children learn from their caregivers and caregiving environments?

Before starting my postdoc, I received my Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University and my B.A. in Biology and Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University.